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Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Nuclear power & engineering
This book describes repository solutions for all types of
radioactive waste and residues in different geotechnical repository
structures. The focus is initially on existing or planned final
disposal sites in Germany and the process of finding sites.
However, international comparisons are drawn, especially to
locations in the US. This affects both the repository structures
and the legal requirements. The radioactive substances considered
include residues from uranium ore processing, as well as low and
intermediate level radioactive waste up to heat generating, high
level radioactive wastes, such as spent fuel and vitrified waste
from reprocessing. In order to evaluate the repository structures
and their inventories, a dimensionless radiotoxicity index Ai / Fi
[activity of radionuclide quantity (Ai) related to the exemption
limit of radionuclide (Fi)] has been introduced. This gives the
reader a well-founded overview of the degree of inconsistency in
the handling of safety requirements for the respective geotechnical
environmental structures. This creates the necessary transparency
on this issue, which has not been previously available and is
required by stakeholders today. The long-term security, the
duration of the observation period and the certainty of the safety
prognosis are also discussed in the book as well as the
participation of subsequent generations in current and possible
future repositories. This is vital as nuclear energy will continue
to be used worldwide in the long term. The international repository
projects presented have all been subjected to the same evaluation
criteria. This applies both to existing operational project as well
as those about to be commissioned and the processes for seeking
locations. Special attention has been paid to monitoring, both
operational and long-term monitoring. This broad range of topics
makes this book a very valuable read for both the interested public
and the professional world.
Nuclear Reactor Technology Development and Utilization presents the
theory and principles of the most common advanced nuclear reactor
systems and provides a context for the value and utilization of
nuclear power in a variety of applications both inside and outside
a traditional nuclear setting. As countries across the globe
realize their plans for a sustainable energy future, the need for
innovative nuclear reactor design is increasing, and this book will
provide a deep understanding of how these technologies can aid in a
region's goal for clean and reliable energy. Dr Khan and Dr
Nakhabov, alongside their team of expert contributors, discuss a
variety of important topics, including nuclear fuel cycles, plant
decommissioning and hybrid energy systems, while considering a
variety of diverse uses such as nuclear desalination, hydrogen
generation and radioisotope production. Knowledge acquired enables
the reader to conduct further research in academia and industry,
and apply the latest design, development, integration, safety and
economic guidance to their work and research.
Written by a former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
nuclear inspector and nuclear security expert, this book provides a
comprehensive and authentic overview of current global nuclear
developments. The author provides detailed insights into current
and past nuclear crises and reveals the technical capabilities,
political strategies and motives of nuclear weapon owners. By
analyzing the nuclear programs and strategies of various countries,
including the USA, Russia, China, Great Britain and France, this
book highlights the existing global nuclear threat and the risks it
entails for humanity. It also describes the current blockades and
suggests possible ways out. Given its scope, the book will appeal
to scholars and policymakers interested in gaining new insights
into sensitive or complex nuclear programs in various countries.
This book strives to take stock of current achievements and
existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available
information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new
approaches to verification strategies and technologies. With the
practical application of the systems concept to nuclear disarmament
scenarios and other, non-nuclear verification fields, it
investigates, where greater transparency and confidence could be
achieved in pursuit of new national or international
nonproliferation and arms reduction efforts. A final discussion
looks at how, in the absence of formal government-to-government
negotiations, experts can take practical steps to advance the
technical development of these concepts.
This revised text covers the fundamentals of thermodynamics
required to understand electrical power generation systems and the
application of these principles to nuclear reactor power plant
systems. The book begins with fundamental definitions of units and
dimensions, thermodynamic variables and the Laws of Thermodynamics
progressing to sections on specific applications of the Brayton and
Rankine cycles for power generation and projected reactor systems
design issues. It is not a traditional general thermodynamics text,
per se, but a practical thermodynamics volume intended to explain
the fundamentals and apply them to the challenges facing actual
nuclear power plants systems, where thermal hydraulics comes to
play. There have been significant new findings for intercooled
systems since the previous edition published and they will be
included in this volume. New technology plans for using a Nuclear
Air-Brayton as a storage system for a low carbon grid are presented
along with updated component sizes and performance criteria for
Small Modular Reactors. Written in a lucid, straight-forward style
while retaining scientific rigor, the content is accessible to
upper division undergraduate students and aimed at practicing
engineers in nuclear power facilities and engineering scientists
and technicians in industry, academic research groups, and national
laboratories. The book is also a valuable resource for students and
faculty in various engineering programs concerned with nuclear
reactors.
This expanded new edition develops the theory of nuclear reactors
from the fundamentals of fission to the operating characteristics
of modern reactors. The first half of the book emphasizes reactor
criticality analysis and all of the fundamentals that go into
modern calculations. Simplified one group diffusion theory models
are presented and extended into sophisticated multi-group transport
theory models. The second half of the book deals with the two main
topics of interest related to operating reactors - reactor
kinetics/dynamics, and in-core fuel management. Additional chapters
have been added to expand and bring the material up-to-date and
include the utilization of more computer codes. Code models and
detailed data sets are provided along with example problems making
this a useful text for students and researchers wishing to develop
an understanding of nuclear power and its implementation in today's
modern energy spectrum. Covers the fundamentals of neutronic
analysis for nuclear reactor systems to help understand nuclear
reactor theory; Describes the benefits, uses, safety features, and
challenges related to implementation of Small Modular Reactors;
Provides examples, data sets, and code to assist the reader in
obtaining mastery over the subjects.
This volume constitutes the state-of-the-art in active
interrogation, widely recognized as indispensable methods for
addressing current and future nuclear security needs. Written by a
leading group of science and technology experts, this comprehensive
reference presents technologies and systems in the context of the
fundamental physics challenges and practical requirements. It
compares the features, limitations, technologies, and impact of
passive and active measurement techniques; describes radiation
sources for active interrogation including electron and ion
accelerators, intense lasers, and radioisotope-based sources; and
it describes radiation detectors used for active interrogation.
Entire chapters are devoted to data acquisition and processing
systems, modeling and simulation, data interpretation and
algorithms, and a survey of working active measurement systems.
Active Interrogation in Nuclear Security is structured to appeal to
a range of audiences, including graduate students, active
researchers in the field, and policy analysts. The first book
devoted entirely to active interrogation Presents a focused review
of the relevant physics Surveys available technology Analyzes
scientific and technology trends Provides historical and policy
context Igor Jovanovic is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering and
Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan and has
previously also taught at Penn State University and Purdue
University. He received his Ph.D. from University of California,
Berkeley and worked as physicist at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. Dr. Jovanovic has made numerous contributions to the
science and technology of radiation detection, as well as the
radiation sources for use in active interrogation in nuclear
security. He has taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses
in areas that include radiation detection, nuclear physics, and
nuclear security. At University of Michigan Dr. Jovanovic is the
director of Neutron Science Laboratory and is also associated with
the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science. Anna Erickson is an
Assistant Professor in the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Program of the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at
Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, she was a postdoctoral
researcher in the Advanced Detectors Group at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. Dr. Erickson received her PhD from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a focus on radiation
detection for active interrogation applications. Her research
interests focus on nuclear non-proliferation including antineutrino
analysis and non-traditional detector design and characterization.
She teaches courses in advanced experimental detection for reactor
and nuclear nonproliferation applications, radiation dosimetry and
fast reactor analysis.
This book discusses the history of nuclear decommissioning as a
science and industry. It explores the early, little-known period
when the term "decommissioning" was not used in the nuclear context
and the end-of-life operations of a nuclear facility were a low
priority. It then describes the subsequent period when
decommissioning was recognized as a separate phase of the nuclear
lifecycle, before bringing readers up to date with today's state of
the art. The author addresses decommissioning as a mature industry
in an era in which large, commercial nuclear reactors and other
fuel-cycle installations have been fully dismantled, and their
sites returned to other uses. The book also looks at the birth,
growth and maturity of decommissioning, focusing on how new issues
emerged, how these were gradually addressed, and the lessons
learned from them. Further, it examines the technologies and
management advances in science and industry that followed these
solutions. Nuclear Decommissioning is a point of reference for
industry researchers and decommissioning practitioners looking to
enrich their knowledge of decommissioning in recent decades as well
as the modern industry. The book is also of interest to historians
and students who wish to learn more about the history of nuclear
decommissioning.
This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 3rd
International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety,
Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plants,
held in Harbin, China on 15th-17th August 2018. The symposium
discussed the status quo, technical advances and development
direction of digital instrument control technology, software
reliability, information security and physical protection in the
process of nuclear power development. Offering technical insights
and know from leading experts, this book is a valuable resource for
both practitioners and academics working in the field of nuclear
instrumentation, control systems and other safety-critical systems,
as well as nuclear power plant managers, public officials, and
regulatory authorities.
The book comprehensively covers the various aspects of risk
modeling and analysis in technological contexts. It pursues a
systems approach to modeling risk and reliability concerns in
engineering, and covers the key concepts of risk analysis and
mathematical tools used to assess and account for risk in
engineering problems. The relevance of incorporating risk-based
structures in design and operations is also stressed, with special
emphasis on the human factor and behavioral risks. The book uses
the nuclear plant, an extremely complex and high-precision
engineering environment, as an example to develop the concepts
discussed. The core mechanical, electronic and physical aspects of
such a complex system offer an excellent platform for analyzing and
creating risk-based models. The book also provides real-time case
studies in a separate section to demonstrate the use of this
approach. There are many limitations when it comes to applications
of risk-based approaches to engineering problems. The book is
structured and written in a way that addresses these key gap areas
to help optimize the overall methodology. This book serves as a
textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on risk
and reliability in engineering. It can also be used outside the
classroom for professional development courses aimed at practicing
engineers or as an introduction to risk-based engineering for
professionals, researchers, and students interested in the field.
This work introduces heavy ion beam probe diagnostics and presents
an overview of its applications. The heavy ion beam probe is a
unique tool for the measurement of potential in the plasma core in
order to understand the role of the electric field in plasma
confinement, including the mechanism of transition from low to high
confinement regimes (L-H transition). This allows measurement of
the steady-state profile of the plasma potential, and its use has
been extended to include the measurement of quasi-monochromatic and
broadband oscillating components, the turbulent-particle flux and
oscillations of the electron density and poloidal magnetic field.
Special emphasis is placed on the study of Geodesic Acoustic Modes
and Alfven Eigenmodes excited by energetic particles with
experimental data sets. These experimental studies help to
understand the link between broadband turbulent physics and
quasi-coherent oscillations in devices with a rather different
magnetic configuration. The book also compares spontaneous and
biased transitions from low to high confinement regimes on both
classes of closed magnetic traps (tokamak and stellarator) and
highlights the common features in the behavior of electric
potential and turbulence of magnetized plasmas. A valuable resource
for physicists, postgraduates and students specializing in plasma
physics and controlled fusion.
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